An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure. Across Africa it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture such as the use of a chief as a political figure. Yet for Olu fe mi Ta i wo no such accommodation should be made. Chiefs he argues in this thoughtprovoking and wideranging pamphlet cannot be liberalsand liberals cannot be chiefs. If we fail to recognize this we fail to ackn